They allegedly saw bottle tops pop off on their own, along with those bottles seemingly moved by an invisible hand. Their claims went viral and dominated local and national news cycles, to the point where Life Magazine did a piece on it.
Like the Freelings, the Hermanns also invited paranormal specialists into their suburban home to deal with what the supposed experts claimed to be a legit poltergeist. While these researchers were able to record some evidence of strange events, the occurrences stopped shortly after the team arrived.
Thankfully, whatever the Hermanns think they say stayed around long enough to inspire one of the most chest-pounding experiences in movie history. Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven revealed to Vulture that the idea of teens being stalked in their sleep by Freddy Krueger came after the late filmmaker read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a Cambodian family whose young son struggled with awful, vivid night terrors. Like most of the teens in Elm Street , this young boy sadly died in his sleep, likely the victim of Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome rather than a ghoul wearing a glove with knives for fingers.
The film is based on the book of the same name by Harvard Ph. Wade Davis. The book centers on the case of a man who had "been a zombie" for two years and was allegedly poisoned, buried alive, and revived with an herbal brew. Davis journeyed to Haiti in search of the drug used in zombification rituals. Ted Bundy, like Bill, faked injuries to bait his victims.
And, like Lecter, Bundy also aided in creating a criminal profile to help catch the prolific Green River Killer. The negative backlash he received from fans was so strong, King used it to fuel his return to horror fiction with the tale of popular author Paul Sheldon James Caan struggling to escape a crazed fan, Annie Wilkes the Oscar-winning Kathy Bates. The fanatical Wilkes and her violent ways stem from the inner demons that plagued her creator.
God, she never wanted to leave. In August , Danny Rolling would be christened the Gainesville Ripper after he, like Ghostface, used a knife to kill five students in Florida. According to Complex, Williamson said it freaked him out so bad that he imagined a knife-wielding killer stalking him outside the home he was a guest in.
The low-budget film, which featured a young couple stranded in an ocean teeming with sharks, was famous for its use of real sharks to add verisimilitude to its gritty, home-video aesthetic.
They were left behind on a scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef. It took two days for the scuba company to realize the Lonergans did not return, and the couple — like their big-screen counterparts — were never found. Wolf Creek gave survival horror a strong boost with its ultra-violent take on Australian travelers being stalked and terrorized in the Outback.
The popular horror flick from writer-director Greg McLean borrows from a series of gruesome crimes committed in his home country. Before he made Aquaman , director James Wan earned his bonafides with horror fans with this modern classic of the genre.
The young man apparently took them, and in the end it turned out he did not—he was taking them and putting them aside. He had a coffee pot in his room after a while to stay awake, and nobody knew quite what to do.
At one point, he was downstairs watching television in the middle of the night and he fell asleep. And his family noticed, finally, that he was asleep, and they brought him up to his bed. By the time they got to him, he was dead….
What makes this true story even creepier, and unbearably morbid, is that many of the young men that fled Cambodia during the genocide also experienced the same psychological terror, which was later classified as Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome SUNDS.
This is likely the newspaper clipping that Craven read in the early 80s. Remember that evil — but also kind of comical — killer doll Chucky?
That little guy was inspired by a real-life voodoo doll, Robert the Doll. In the s a young boy, Eugene Robert Otto, was given a doll. Just like Chucky, the doll ended up terrorizing the child and other children that would inherit it. As you can see, Robert the Doll does not really look like Chucky, but this is the doll where that whole horror franchise started.
This creepy David Cronenberg film is based on two real people: Stewart and Cyril Marcus , identical twin gynecologists who practiced together in New York City. In the summer of , a pair of forty-five-year-old twins, their bodies gaunt and already partially decomposed, were found dead at a fashionable Manhattan address in an apartment littered with decaying chicken parts, rotten fruit, and empty pill bottles. The bodies were those of Cyril and Stewart Marcus, doctors who had apparently died, more or less simultaneously, as the result of a suicide pact.
Like many people, I was shocked by the information. Two things contributed to my astonishment. You can read the rest of the story at The Line Up. Here also is the original New York Times article about their death. It was also loosely based on Ted Bundy. Buffalo Bill made clothes out of human skin just like Gein, kept sex slaves in his basement like Heidnik, and lured them using fake plaster casts just like Ted Bundy.
The relationship between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lector is also based in reality. This is based on, not inspired by, a story in Arizona from the mids that sounds unbelievable but was corroborated by several sources. You can find all the details in a book by Travis Walton that explains his encounter with a UFO in He and about a half-dozen other members of a road crew were dazzled by a yellow light in the sky that upon further examination was a UFO.
When the object struck Travis with a light beam and appeared to kill him, the other members fled. Instead of being killed, though, Travis was discovered five days later—naked, shaking, and a dozen pounds lighter. He claims to have been taken aboard the spaceship. Disturbingly, all the other members of the road crew—who were initially suspected of murdering Travis and concocting this story to save themselves—passed polygraph tests. In August the city of Gainesville, Florida went into a hysteria as a serial killer committed a series of especially gruesome murders over the course of four days.
The Gainesville Ripper was eventually caught and revealed to be a man named Danny Rolling who also murdered a family in Shreveport, LA. In , writer and struggling actor Kevin Williamson was housesitting in Los Angeles when he caught an episode of the tabloid news show Turning Point about the Ripper. Alone in an unfamiliar home, Williamson tried to distract himself by calling a friend.
Their conversation turned to horror and which scary movies they liked best. Williamson hung up the phone and wrote 18 pages about a woman talking on the phone with a killer about scary movies. That became the opening scene of Scream. The marketing for The Mothman Prophecies heavily emphasized that the film was based on true events. How real was it, though? Particularly given this is a movie about a mysterious creature that make phone calls and can predict the future?
Well, there really is an urban legend about a being called the Mothman that is told in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, however no actual evidence proves that this paranormal entity exists. According to folklore, the Mothman is a humanoid creature with glowing read eyes and a foot wingspan. It was first seen in Point Pleasant on November 15, After a local bridge collapsed on December 15, , killing 46 people, the Mothman sightings ceased.
This book is the basis for the film. Shark movies are a dime a dozen, but Open Water is a unique shark-attack movie because it is based on a real story and two real people, Thomas Joseph Lonergan and Eileen Cassidy Lonergan. The married couple were on a scuba-diving excursion off Cairns in Australia. The tour company made a mistake, though, and left without them, leaving the couple to fend for themselves in the open water. The couple was never found and their cause of death is still mysterious, but it very well could have been a shark attack, which is how this horror film sees it.
Speaking of real things, all the sharks used in Open Water were real and the actors interacted with real sharks in all scenes. This story of an exorcism is inspired by real events that happened to Anneliese Michel, a young German woman who died of dehydration and malnutrition after a period of about 10 months during which 67 exorcisms were performed on her.
Tragically, it is most likely Anneliese Michel was only experiencing mental health issues, but the widespread popularity of the movie The Exorcist convinced her family that the problem was demonic possession.
Anneliese was born in Germany in into a devoutly Catholic household. She was diagnosed with depression and epileptic psychosis at age 16 in and was unsuccessfully treated in psychiatric institutions. By , she was suicidal. The next year, The Exorcist came out. In two priests started performing exorcisms on Anneliese.
These horrifying sessions were recorded and you can still listen to audio of them. Finally, after 67 exorcisms, she died of dehydration and malnutrition in at the age of This movie depicts an atrocious true story of child abuse and murder.
This movie is based on the real haunted dybukk box story. Whoever bought that box faced its consequences. Numerous owners of the box reported strange things happening to them on Ebay.
So are you looking for a box to keep your wine bottles safe? Like exorcism movies with twisted old tricks? This is what will save you. It is based on a book called Beware The Night which is based on non-fictional events. Book yourself in for this. Want some alligator related horror flick?
Keep this up on your list. This is based on Joe Ball, a man who killed around 20 women and watched the alligators feed on them. It's so gory but it's worth it because it did happen for real! Can you guess how it'd feel to be captured by aliens and lie in a cocoon next to corpses of other people from earth? Travis Walton alleges that aliens captured him in and this movie revolves around what happens to him. It's a scary science fiction you just can't miss! Based on a serial killer called the "Zodiac", this horror movie has a lot of cryptic messages and codes to decode.
But at your own risk! It is an independent American horror movie based on a real incident in Uruguay. If you like "real time" footage in your horror movies then this is it. The opening scene of this movie is just like that of The Conjuring.
And the story continues with the most scary possessed doll there has ever been. It is also true that people who taunted the doll in the museum faced near death or fatal accidents.
So are we. One thing we know for sure is that after seeing this movie, your next visit to the dentist will be really hard.
It is based on a dentist who turned out to be a serial killer. What did your mom say about not talking to strangers? This movie will send shivers down your spine! The latest in the Conjuring franchise, The Conjuring 2 is another tale of paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Set in Egnland, the movie deals with the infamous Enfield Case. Here are 25 horror movies based on true incidents that you absolutely need to see: 1.
The Exorcist The Exorcist is based on a book which is based on real life of a boy named Roland Doe who was possessed by demons in Source: wordpress 2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre This movie is loosely based on America's famous serial killer Ed Gein who had nine human skin masks in his possession at the time of his arrest. Source: almrsal 3. Source: strangekidsclub 4. Child's Play The script was based on a nurse who allegedly put a voodoo curse on author Robert Eugene Otto which transformed one of his childhood dolls into a night-time menace.
Source: mildlypleased 5. The Amityville Horror The movie is based on the events that took place in at , Ocean Avenue, the new house of the Lutz family in Amityville. Source: craveonline 6. Psycho This thriller-horror movie is loosely inspired by Ed Gein's crimes and Wisconsin murders.
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